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Garden City Movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture. (wiki)

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin: For example, in France, the first garden city, which was built in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal mining basin from 1904, offered up a new way of looking at housing for workers (see link) Link

Rabat: It is emblematic of rational land use ... through the use of a planted environment drawing on the European 'garden city' concept (AB ev)

Saltaire: Saltaire is an outstanding and well preserved example of a mid 19th century industrial town, the layout of which was to exert a major influence on the development of the "garden city" movement. (OUV)

White City of Tel-Aviv: It was conceived as a 'garden city', but with a more urban character than those built earlier. (AB ev)